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A bomb explosion in Afghanistan's Laghman province killed nine passengers traveling on a civilian bus, the Afghan president's office said Saturday in a statement.

In a beehive of once-empty cement forms, a neighborhood in Bangkok's northern reaches has risen from the waters that have inundated much of the rest of the metropolitan area.

Security forces killed a man who hijacked a ferry in northwest Turkey and demanded the incident be shown on live television, authorities said Saturday.

They've survived the war, extreme poverty and persecution. Today, these teen girls are being helped at a unique school outside Atlanta.

Oxfam will relocate workers and scale back operations in South Sudan's Upper Nile state following a surge of violence along the border with Sudan, the international aid organization said Saturday.

Major league catcher Wilson Ramos has been "found alive," two days after he was reported kidnapped, Venezuelan state TV reported.

Mexico's interior minister, Jose Francisco Blake Mora, was killed in helicopter crash Friday, the government said.

The Syrian government's "systematic" crackdown on civilians amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Friday.

The Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations was effectively stalled Friday after the Security Council approved a report stating its inability "to make a unanimous recommendation."

Cool, calm and collected, Mario Monti could not be more different from Italy's flamboyant outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.